Mark Watson

Mark Watson

@markwatson.bsky.social

Tech person, interested in software engineering. Not the comedian. Also #LUFC + Games + SciFi + Books + History + Politics. Something for everyone then! Opinions my own, not my employer's.

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Aaronsson IMO wrong for this kind of game and Ampadu having an unusually poor half. Have to change at half time surely. As for Brentford, it's Leeds always saying the right players aren't available in window but another area where they are being outplayed here.

British railways (and that includes the infrastructure, the trains, the management and the vibe coded, half written crap that is Trainline) are a national embarassment

Went to see the Odyssey yesterday - it's as brilliant and clever as everyone says. Not sure the "it's not about Helen, it's all about the trade routes" works (feels a bit Star Wars prequels) but in general it sticks pretty closely to the myth and the story

Also the hero's ultimate response to the back-tick (not in the book, obviously) of "the Sea Peoples are coming and Bronze Age civilisation is collapsing" being to take a much deserved vacation when effectively he's just got back from one

If you want to understand the current state of the Labour Party, consider that of Streeting, Nandy and Burnham, only Streeting has ever had a job outside politics - just under a year at PWC. We're basically being run by the ents ctee of the NUS.

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Lisa Nandy says she doesn't understand why the is so much focus on rejoining the EU from Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham If Lisa Nandy can't understand that an 8% hit to our GDP is a bad thing and that the sooner we fix it the better, then...

I guess I'm marginally pro Citeh in this but I've got this manc next to me who keeps shouting "grr too easeh" every time Chelsea counter attack and his accent is so annoying i might switch sides #lufc

I seem to remember Meslier being bundled into the net by 3 Spurs players and VAR not intervening to rescind their goal, last time we were in the EPL. So typical "big club decision" and feel more than a bit sorry for #whufc. But #lufc staying up!

the idea that Fulham are "pushing for Europe" having seen them several times this season shows how much of a mediocre mush the middle of the EPL is these days #lufc

I recently resurrected my long-dead SF & Fantasy blog and have been posting sporadic criticism. Here's one for my #lufc friends. On the last Celtic kingdom in England, what was under Tolkien's feet in Leeds, and wizards who disappear to their true home in the west. Vamos Elfed Carajo!

conqueredworlds.netVamos Elfed Carajo!Vamos Elfed Carajo! Of Tolkien and Lothlórien and Leeds United There's a tradition, running from the medieval Kabbalah through Le Guin's Earthsea and beyond and between, that names hold power, an...

Awful game, missed Gudmundsson. Not blaming Farke on this one, though Okafor looked not really up to it when he came on (Nmecha isn't a left winger either) and think we'd have been better off with Gnonto. Feels like a useful point tho #lufc

10 men against 12. Well done for holding on but I think we'd have won that if the ref hadn't been so terrible. Also, Canvot - what an embarrassment to the game he is. #lufc

Feels from the commentary like TNT is showing the West Ham game with the intention of syndicating it to WHUTV. Course it was a red. TBH feels like West Ham staying in cup and taking a straight red on a key player is a good result for us though #lufc

Arsenal have a far more expensive squad than us, having done well out of PL/UCL football (and up until 2018, Russian oligarch blood money) but it also feels like Farke misjudged tactics and personnel on this one #lufc

On the positive side (deperately looking), I think this is a better set of 1st team players than those that made up the squad of self-regarding RB losers under Marsch/Gracia/Allardyce etc and a decent manager could still turn this around in the second half of the season #lufc

Haven't been in the FarkeOut camp & think he was dealt a terrible hand by the recruitment team, but that 15 mins waiting to bring on subs, because of his 70m rule, during which we lost control of the game, then bringing on Harrison to see him get repeatedly skinned, is why we need someone else #lufc